Rajinikanth Best Roles Hot

Everything about Rajinikanth is larger-than-life, including his birthday. As 12.12.11 marks the Thalaivar's 61st birthday, super-fans are already looking to next year in glee. Why? That's when the Thalaivar will celebrate his birthday on 12.12.12! Super date, super star, super thrill. With that sweet anticipation, let's catch up with the superstar on this birthday.

let's have a look of his best roles ever

10. Chandramukhi [2005], German Title: The Ghost Hunters
Directed by P Vasu, Music by Vidyasagar, Starring: Rajini Kanth, Jothika, Prabhu, Nayanthara
* Remake of Malayalam Mohanlal Starrer - Manichithrathazhu
* Was the Highest Grossing South Indian movie at the time of the release.
* Still hold the record for longest running South Indian Movie - 800 Days

9. Arunachalam [1997]
Directed by Sundar C, Music by Deva, Starring: Rajini Kanth, Soundarya
* Remake of Hollywood movie: Brewstar's Millions
* Rajini's complete comedy movie after a long time.
* Was a huge hit among the masses.
* Though movie was not considered as a Good Movie, this movie brought back Rajini's Strength in Comedy Scenes.

8. Sivaji [2007]
Directed by S Shankar, Music by A R Rahman, Starring: Rajini Kanth, Suman, Sreiya
* Was the Most Expensive Indian movie at the time of its release.
* Was the biggest Nett Profited Indian Movie at that time.
* This movie increased his popularity in Non-Tamil Spoken areas like Germany.
* Movie released in Packed house and became the movie South Indian movie to enter in Top 10 - UK and South Africa
* The movie opened in Packed in Full House in Gulf region and had a dream run for near to 30 Days, which was very rare for any Non-English Movies.

7. Annamalai [1992]
Directed by Suresh Krishna, Music by Deva, Starring: Rajini Kanth, Kushbu
* This movie introduced Rajini Kanth's own Theme music, which became a craze

6. Muthu [1995] / Japanese Title - Muthu oduru Maharaja

5. Mullum Malarum [1978]

4. Padaiyappa [1999] / Telugu Title - Narasimha

Directed by K S Ravikumar, Music by A R Rahman, Starring: Rajini Kanth, Soundarya, Ramya Krishnan

* The film was the biggest grosser of Tamil Nadu at the time of its release.

* The film was huge hit in US and UK, - Literally more than any other south Indian Movie.

 

3. Baasha[1995]

Directed by Suresh Krishna, Music by Deva, Starring: Rajini Kanth, Nagma, Raghuvaran

* Was the biggest grosser of south India for few years since its release.

* Is considered as the biggest hit (In terms of increasing his popularity).

* The movie eventually increased his power over masses.

* Was the first wide scale hit of Rajini - Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka

 

2. Endhiran [2010]

Directed by S Shankar, Music by A R Rahman, Starring: Rajini Kanth, Aiswariya Rai

* Is the most expensive Asian Movie of all time.

* Is the second highest wide release in the world after Spiderman.

* Is the highest initial grosser by any Indian Language movie.

* Film in the whole is the highest grosser in the history of Indian film industry.

 

1. Dalapathi [1991]

Directed by Maniratnam, Music by Ilayaraja, Starring: Rajini Kanth, Mammotty

* Considered as the Best Rajini Movie till date.

* Many critics rated Rajini Kanth performance in this movie ahead of Kamal's in Oscar Nominated Nayagan.

* This film got Rajini Kanth's 3rd Nomination for the Best Actor Award.

* Movie is considered as "Missing this movie, you will never know The Rajini Kanth'.

* This is considered as the last performance oriented Rajini Movie.